Tag: Volcano Suns

Volcano Suns were founded in Boston in 1983 by former Mission of Burma drummer Peter Prescott. In 1985, the band, with Jon Williams on guitar and Jeff Weigand on bass, released their debut album, The Bright Orange Years, and followed it up a year later with another classic, All-Night Lotus Party. Both albums were originally released on Homestead Records.
2 live tapes from Philly from the late 80’s Arch Street Empire and Khyber Pass. (Thanks for the Live tapes Don Sheluga) Not sure if I was at these particular shows or not – Volcano Suns played a lot in Philly and I think one time I saw them at Swarthmore College. They were always a great band to see live. I included the live tape they released on bandcamp from City Gardens. Although City Gardens was never my favorite place this show was amazing – Squirrel Bait, Volcano Suns, Agent Orange and the Descendants.

Live Arch Street Empire 5/25/1989
01 – What’s Happening To Me!
02 – Barricade
03 – Animals
04 – Dot On The Map
05 – Unknown
06 – Come on Baby Let’s Go Downtown” (Neil Young cover)
07 – Magic Sky
08 – Meat and Potatoes
09 – Engine-Unknown
10 – Greasy Spine
11 – Peal Out/Testify
12 – Unknown
13 – Action (Sweet Cover)

MediaFire Zip of all files

Live Khyber Pass 6/2/90
01 – Fastest Man Alive
02 – Needles In The Camel’s Eye
03 – Sea Cruise
04 – Unknown
05 – Unknown-Greasy Spine
06 – Unknown
07 – Sounds Like Bucks
08 – Unknown-White Elephant
09 – Unknown
10 – That’s How I Escaped My Certain Fate
11 – Unknown
12 – Unknown

MediaFire Zip of all files

Old Pain(t): Live at City Gardens

Jeff Wiegand of the band offered some background on the release:
This show was recorded at City Gardens in New Jersey during July of ’86. We had just finished up the final mixing of All-Night Lotus Party in June and went back out on the road for a bit.
The original cassette tape was restored by Bob Weston and Jon Williams. Bob tells me the whiz-bang technical term for this is “audio restoration.” Whatever it might be called, they did a great job.

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